Marx: LPO/Jurowski *****
29th November 2017
The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s inventive programming has been heavily seasoned over the past week: Bridge’s Summer and Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams on Wednesday; Kabalevsky’s Spring on Friday, along with traversals of all four seasons by Vivaldi and Glazunov. Tonight, it was mists and mellow fruitfulness, courtesy of two rarities. Respighi’s Poema autunnale, despite its promise of fauns and bacchantes, is largely meditative. For real Dionysian revelry, Joseph Marx’s Eine Herbstsymphonie – a spectacular 1922 work finally receiving its UK première – hit the spot, a lavish autumnal wallow, cloaked in Klimtian gold and crimson in an opulent reading under Vladimir Jurowski.
Vladimir Jurowski
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